World Youth Day in Lisbon, a gathering of young Roman Catholics in the presence of Pope Francis was hailed as a great success and a landmark in preparing young people for a world without war. The Pope told the gathering of 1.5 million for the Mass at the gathering “Dear young people, I would like to look into the eyes of each one of you and tell you: Be not afraid, be not afraid...
3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honour your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from...
MARY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT A faithful Jewish woman called Miriam who played a vital role in bringing Jesus into the world through the miracle of the virgin birth. She had other children in the natural way with Joseph after the supernatural conception and birth of the Lord Jesus – Matthew 13.55-56 Rejoiced in ‘God my Saviour’ – Luke 2.47 Present at the cross (John 19) and at prayer with...
I watched an interview the other day with the man called Matthew Roberts. He’s a pastor up in York, I think. Christian Focus Publications On the Christian Institute website he was rating this whole issue of the Pride Month which we’re in at this present time. LGBT Pride: A new religion? Now, we are in what’s called ‘Pride Month’, a yearly event in which they...
13 For you have said in your heart:‘I will ascend into heaven,I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;I will also sit on the mount of the congregationOn the farthest sides of the north;14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,I will be like the Most High.’15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,To the lowest depths of the Pit. Isaiah 14.13-15 Our...
Geoff Marshall That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that...
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the...
Here’s Babylon, here’s Jerusalem. What do we know about Babylon? Where is Babylon? Here’s a map which shows you where Jerusalem is. Babylon is in today’s Iraq. Sometimes the country is known as ‘Mesopotamia’, which means the country of the two rivers: the river Euphrates and the river Tigris which flow down into the Persian Gulf and which were the seat of an...
Last Wednesday, the Pope held an audience in Rome. He addressed a gathering for his General Audience where he said that ‘convincing someone from another religion to become a Christian is a pagan practice.’ So, to ‘evangelise’ is not to ‘proselytise’. To proselytise is something pagan, it’s neither religious nor evangelical. What does he mean by ‘proselytise’? What he means by ‘proselytise’...
The Queen’s role has passed on to her son who is now King Charles III. And one of the titles which he’s going to inherit as British monarch is that of ‘Defender of the Faith’. “We need a vast military-style campaign to marshal the strength of the global private sector,” Charles said, “with trillions at its disposal.” Prince Charles now King Charles III What Faith? How is he going to...